Stop Vedanta mining in India : meeting on how you can help

Sat­ur­day 17th Oct 2–4pm Lon­don School of Eco­nom­ics
Cor­po­rate mur­der, envi­ron­men­tal crimes:
Vedan­ta plc, DfID and the Indi­an State
PUBLIC MEETING AND FILM SCREENING

Samaren­dra Das activist, film-mak­er and researcher will dis­cuss these and relat­ed issues at a screen­ing of extracts from his remark­able film Wira Pdi­ka (Earth­worm and Com­pa­ny Man) in which peo­ple from the Adi­vasi Don­gria Kondh and Majhi Kondh com­mu­ni­ties, activists, singers and dancers, for­est dwellers and fish­er peo­ple speak about their lives and their strug­gles against Vedan­ta. If Vedan­ta are not stopped, the mine will destroy the Niyam­giri hills — known as the most beau­ti­ful moun­tains in India — wip­ing out the ancient civ­i­liza­tion of the Don­gria Kondh adi­vasi com­mu­ni­ty who regard the Niyam Don­gar moun­tain and forests of the area as their Gods. It will also lead to unprece­dent­ed envi­ron­men­tal dis­as­ters, water pol­lu­tion and mass unem­ploy­ment.

sasg@southasiasolidarity.org
07846873341

The meet­ing will be in Rm 302 Clement House, Lon­don School of Eco­nom­ics, The Ald­wych, Lon­don WC2
(Map of LSE at http://www2.lse.ac.uk/mapsAndDirections/findingYourWayAroundLSE.aspx)

http://www.southasiasolidarity.org

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www.actionaid.org.uk/index.asp?page_id=101732

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